Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree?
Posted on 09/04/2015 2:09:47 PM PDT by conservativejoy
My distaste for Trump is well documented at this point, but when I read this evening about Hugh Hewitt’s interview of Donald Trump, I was struck by how terrible Hewitt’s whole line of questioning is.
Hewitt – who gave Harriet Miers a “solid B+” and thought that was good enough – has essentially declared that Al Gore would have been a better President than George Bush. That’s how incompetent the establishment’s favorite radio host is at criticizing Donald Trump.
Remember the gotcha games they played with George W. Bush? And how Al Gore was supposedly to be a better President because he allegedly could have named Aslan Maskhadov, then-President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria? Now Hugh Hewitt is playing the role of Andy Hiller.
Then-Governor Bush had it exactly right, after getting Hiller to admit that he could not name the Foreign Minister of Mexico, either: “What I’m suggesting to you is, if you can’t name the foreign minister of Mexico, therefore, you know, you’re not capable about what you do. But the truth of the matter is you are, whether you can or not.”
It turns out Bush was a better President than Gore would have been, regardless of whether he could name Maria del Rosario Green Macias for the Daily Double, as she was then the Secretary of Foreign Affairs for then-President Ernesto Zedillo of Mexico. Oh, by the way, she was due to leave office after Bush won, but before Bush was inaugurated, a fact that seemed to escape the attentions of both Gore and Hiller. Zedillo’s term was ending November 2000, and so his Foreign Minister’s name would never matter to a President Bush.
And that’s precisely the point Trump made to Hewitt: playing Quiz Bowl now isn’t going to matter when the specific names involved are going to be changing from now to January 2017. And it’s true: spending a week learning a bunch of Arabic and Farsi names would not make him a better President, than he would be right now. Whether you like him or not, that’s the fact.
I’m not sure the establishment is capable of stopping Trump. It’s no wonder Jeb Bush is falling apart in the polls. If this is what they think is a heavy hitting attack on Donald Trump, they don’t even have a clue anymore. They’re completely out of touch with how we used to win elections.
LOL! Shhhh Don’t go giving away Hugh Hewitt’s research :)
Oh...okay....what do you think that number should be? Do you think all 16 should remain in the race? Just curious...not being sarcastic. ;-)
Trump, Carson, Cruz, Jebby, Fiorina, Rubio, Walker, and Kasich. Cut the field in half (8) and see what shakes out.
I meant % levels. That group presents pretty skewed % levels, no? They have to go by numbers, not just arbitrary pick and choose.
What are Walker’s and Kasich’s numbers, anyhow. TIA.
Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree?
I suspect he's SUICIDAL or something...?
Trump needs to just ignore all this, and carry on. It doesn’t matter if he isn’t up on the names of the latest Arab shitstains who hate our guts. I only care if he turns them into puddles of goo.
Isn’t this radio clown Mark Steyn’s buddy?
Mark Steyn’s buddy is also Rush...
They are ahead in their home states, something no one else can say... Because of Trump.
I don’t think that is Hugh’s wife. She looks like Kathryn Jean Lopez of National Review.
“Hewitt asked Florina those same questions. Now she never heard Trump’s answers because they were taped in different segments and she came through with flying colors .”
If you believe that, you’re fooling yourself.
Mark Steyn’s buddy is also Rush...I know he sits in for Rush. You could have just ignored the question. Why would you avoid the answer?
I see a lot of Steyn articles here of Q&A, almost interviews with HH. Seemingly a closer relationship than just an occasional sitting in for Rush.
There is no conservative movement. Wake up.
The host spent most of the time telling his audience how awful Trump was because he didn't know all the names of the various Islamo-terrorist orgs. and Hillary did.
I guess the "logic" was because Hillary knew some names of foreign terrorists, she was qualified to be president. As if your average drunk knew the names, he'd be qualifed too. I'm not a fan of Trump, but big deal.
Trump’s total diss of the establishment and the lame stream media continues to be refreshing.
Like Trump said, in six months the names will change. If our current President did his job, ISIS would have already been destroyed by the time a new President was sworn in.
Anyone can memorize names, but that won’t make them a good President. I’d just as soon they be able to say, “We bombed the hell out of what’s his name today”.
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